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Biometrics and Statistics Section activities (2015)
No full textThis document provides highlights of the activities completed by Biometrics and Statistics Section during 2015. These are given along the following line items of the Workplan 2015.
Activity titles:
1. Advisory Support to Research Projects (BSS-1)
2. Exploitation of Advanced Biometrical and Statistical Techniques (BSS-2)
3. International Crop Information System (ICIS) Support (BSS- 3)
4. Bioinformatics Support (BSS-4)
5. Biometrical and Statistical Computing (BSS-5)
6. Statistical software, data management and analysis (BSS-6)
7. Training (BSS- 7)
8. Support to DDG-R Office (BSS-8
IDENTIFYING SOME HERBICIDE RESISTANT GRASSES, MONITORING THEIR NATURE AND DISTRIBUTION IN SOUTHWESTERN PART OF ALEPPO CITY, SYRIA
No full textIt is common to say that weeds in Syria have developed resistance to herbicides, but this needs to be confirmed by research studies which are rare in the area. This study is run to describe and diagnose those weeds, and to monitor their nature and allocate their distribution in the Quaik river area in the southwestern part of Aleppo city in Syria. Seeds of suspected resistant grasses have been collected during the 2010 summer from Al-Eis, Al-Hadher and Banes, which were theoretically identified as resistant biotype to (ACCase) herbicides. In addition to seeds of grasses collected from ICARDA Tel Hadya station which were expected as sensitive biotype, taking into account that the seeds were preserved properly for the 2011/2012 season. In this experiment four herbicides have been used, two ACCase inhibitors, Ralon super (fenoxaprop-p-ethyl) and Topik (clodinafobpropargyl), the other two ALS inhibitors, Atlantis (mesosulfuron + iodosulfuron) and Pallas (pyroxsulam). The results showed that, the short spike canarygrass (Phalaris brachystachys L.) was the most risky in this area which have developed resistance to the (ACCase) in all locations including Tel Hadya station, the hood canarygrass (Phalaris paradoxa L.) came second in its resistance shown to the (ACCase) at all locations except Tel Hadya station. The wild oat (Avena fatua L.) came third, the results shown developed resistance to the (ACCase) in two locations Al-Hadher and Banes, sensitive in Tel Hadya station, while the results at Al-Eis were uncertain
ICARDA’s Strategy for Biometrics and Statistics Support to its Research (2016-2020)
No full textThis document describes the goals and objectives of Biometrics and Statistics Section (BSS), highlights current status and the challenges in the changing agricultural landscape to sustainably support the livelihood and the environment. BSS aims to provide biometric and statistics support to programs on planning of experiments and surveys, analysis of data, drawing statistical inferences, presentation of results, and statistical review of scientific documents. It also shares the relevant techniques and tools with the NARS scientists through training courses. BSS devises new methodologies for specialized situations if not available. Another area of expertise is to develop statistical computing modules and share them with ICARDA and NARS scientists. This effort leads to enhance the reliability, efficiency, repeatability and interpretability of experimental results leading to high level of science quality. It lists a number of key statistical issues and ongoing activities. The clusters of activities mentioned in the preproposals for 2nd Call of CRP DCLAS and Wheat have also been listed for easy harmonization of ICARDA BSS activities
Report of Biometrics and Statistics Activities During 2016
No full textDelivered biometrics and statistics support to the scientists and students on experimental
design and statistical analysis, developed computing codes and carried out data analyses,
helped in drawing inferences, suggested on presentations and conducted statistical reviews
Experimental Designs for Precision in Phenotyping
No full textPrecision phenotyping is the evaluation of a genotype’s expression in a
given environment with minimum influence of experimental error. This
chapter presents the basic principles of experimental designs and lists
commonly used experimental designs for phenotyping crop genotypes.
Experimental designs include unreplicated designs, incomplete block
designs, and variable replication block designs which can also be
generated using some selected software. This chapter illustrates some of
such experimental designs and key directives of the software which can be
used to generate and analyze these designs have also been included
Course Report on Geoinformatics application in agriculture and resilience
No full textThe Tigers and Euphrates rivers are the main sources of water supply in Iraq; these two sources are largely utilized in agriculture sector which consumers about 85 % of the total quantity received. However, with haphazard climate change impacts due to unprecedented drought, which has eclipsed previously notable low-rainfall years in 2009 and 2015, and trans boundary withholdings of surface water from upstream Syria and Turkey, the country’s name “the land between the two rivers” is now becoming a misnomer.
In 2018, as the summer wore on, Iraq’s cultivated areas were reduced by half compared to the previous year. The disappearing agricultural lands may spark a displacement crisis far beyond what Iraq has already suffered after a three-year war against so-called Islamic State (ISIS). From the Isis crisis and the military operation against the jihadi group, Iraq had nearly three million internally displaced persons (IDPs).
The Third Country Training Program, one of JICA’s capacity building program, is a typical example which respond and provide science-based technical solution to above critical issues. Statistical design, data analysis and Geoinformatics application are crucial for identifying and managing water resources for irrigation, and agricultural water economics and impact assessment of water resource management are essential for better agricultural water policies and institutions with efficient use of limited water resource in Iraq
Work-plan 2017: Biometrics and Statistics Section
No full textBiometrics and Statistics support will be made available in the design of experiments, data
analysis and inference, and statistical review of scientific manuscripts. Support will also be given
in statistical computing and other software of interest to the researchers. Through involvement in
the CRPs and Generation Challenge Program, we shall have strong involvement in research and
spatial database management including ICIS, long-term trials and Bioinformatics work which
will focus on data management, identification of crop varieties for spatial adaptation and
temporalstability, estimation of yield-trends in long-term trials, and analysis of molecular marker
data, expression data and spatial modeling. It is expected that BSS will be involved in providing
Research Methods supports to CRPs and bilateral projects by organizing training courses on
experimental designs and statistical data analysis, and providing technical backstopping to NARS
scientists at various Action and Satellite sites
Quick Setup Guide of ODK App with Google drive
No full textThis document outlines the steps to set up to an Android device (i.e. smart phones/tablets) to make it ready for use with Open Data Kit (ODK) using Google drive as server
Wide range of genetic variabilrty for herbicide tolerance in Faba bean
No full textWeeds have emerged as major constraint to faba bean productivity. A study was caried out to evaluate
faba bean lines to post-emergence herbicides with 210 g a.i.lha Metribuzin (photosynthesis inhibitor, PI), 82 ga.i.lha Oxyfluorfen and15 ga.i.lha Imazethapyr (amino acid synthesis inhibitor). A set of 140 accessions were planted in augmented design with three repetitive checks (ILB 1 8 14, BPLT 1 0 and Elizar)
at Marchouch station, Morocco and the same accessions along with 28 adVanced lines were evaluated in
alpha design with two replications at Terbol station, Lebanon. In both locations, each plot was divided
in three sub-plots for herbicide treatments (Tl for Metribuzin, T2 for Ox/luorfen,T3Imazethapyr) and
a control (water spray, C). Herbicide tolerance score, HTS (1-5 scale) was recorded at 3- and 5-weeks
after herbicide treatment, where 1 : highly tolerant (similar appearance as C), 3 - moderately tolerant
(clear difference on plant appearance comparing with C, with necrosis in lower leaves and less than25o/o
death of the plants), 4 : sensitive (no further development of new leaves with severe burning of leaves
with more death between 25o/o and 75"/o of the plants), and 5 : highly sensitive (compiete burning of
leaves leading to more IhanT5o/o mortality of the plants). Plant height and seed weight were recorded for
the treated sub-plots and the controls. Data were analyzed for each location separately and the results
indrcated significant differences among genotlpes and treatments for plant height and seed weight in
both locations. In both locations plant height was lower in treated plots than the control. Chlorosis, rolling
of apical leaves, reduced growth, and lower nurnber of pods and mortality were sighted on the genotypes
for the three herbicides. Oxyfluorfen affected the growth of most of faba bean genotlpes at early stage,
but after three weeks tolerant lines showed recovery of vegetative growth and showed no significant
difference for seed weight between treated and non-treated plots. Among the tested lines 62 were
considered tolerant to Metribuzin, 72 were tolerant to Oxyfluorfen and 46 were tolerant to Imazethapy
Statistical Design and Analysis of Date Palm Insect Pest Management Experiments
No full textThis chapter discusses selected experimental design and data analyses in the context of date
palm insect experiments. This chapter illustrates the number of infested fruit, an analysis of
repeated measurements, and estimates the number of juvenile nematodes of two species
and three sizes found in a date palm species with real data. It presents an analysis of dosebinary
response data with an aim to estimate the lethal dose and it provides a World Wide
Web link for computation
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